São Tomé and Principe - Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in São Tomé and Principe was 18.30 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.21 in 2013 and a minimum value of 0.44 in 2015.

Definition: Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC section 3 (mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1999 8.24
2000 10.80
2001 14.35
2002 11.67
2003 10.80
2004 14.67
2005 20.21
2006 20.15
2007 20.28
2008 23.13
2009 15.41
2010 16.08
2011 15.97
2012 25.75
2013 26.21
2014 22.81
2015 0.44
2016 0.46
2017 19.42
2018 21.93
2019 23.19
2020 18.30

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports